Unified Lightweight Champion Mikey Garcia Risks His Undefeated Record By Challenging I.B.F. Welterweight Champion Errol "The Truth" Spence Live on FOX PPV. #SUBSCRIBE





































































































































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Premier Boxing Champions and Fox, which announced a four-year rights deal in September, on Tuesday unveiled their first 10 cards -- and the rest of their dates for the year -- at a news conference at the Fox Studios in Los Angeles.

In all, they announced 14 bouts through April that will air on either Fox in prime time or on cable network Fox Sports 1. But the biggest fight made official was the much-discussed showdown between welterweight world titlist Errol Spence Jr. and lightweight titlist Mikey Garcia, who will move up two weight divisions to go for a world title in a fifth division in a meeting between two of boxing's elite pound-for-pound best in the world.

The fight will headline the first Fox PPV card and will take place at AT&T Stadium, the home of the Dallas Cowboys, in Arlington, Texas, on March 16. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is a big boxing fan and has wanted to host another major fight at his stadium, which has played host to three previous boxing events, two headlined by Manny Pacquiao and one by Canelo Alvarez.

"I wanted to get the biggest fight available and make the biggest splash and what better way than to do it on a Fox pay-per-view," Garcia said. "That's why I'm taking it, because it's such a big challenge and that's what I'm about. I want the biggest fight, the biggest challenges. There's no one else out there right now that I can compete with at that level and Spence is the guy, so that's why I'm after him."

Garcia (39-0, 30 KOs) began calling Spence (24-0, 21 KOs) out before he unified lightweight belts in a lopsided win over Robert Easter Jr. in July.

Now, for the first time in his career, Garcia will be an underdog and looking to turn the conventional wisdom of a great big man always beating a great little man on its head.


When asked about Mikey Garcia’s chances in a potential fight against Errol Spence Jr, the former world champion and current promoter, Floyd Mayweather, thinks Garcia should fight Vasyl Lomachenko.

“With the Errol Spence fight, that’s tough. That’s a tough fight for him. The Errol Spence fight is definitely a tough fight for him. His chances of beating Lomachenko are a lot better than his chances of beating Errol Spence. Lomachenko can’t take it to the body,” Mayweather said to Fight Hype.

Even with that, Mayweather believes the California native deserves credit to want to move up in weight and face off with Spence. “You have to respect Mikey Garcia for wanting to test his skills against the best guys out there. You can’t fault him for doing it, you can’t overlook Mikey Garcia in a fight with Errol Spence. Errol Spence can fight his a** off…it’s a good matchup. Spence, he’s tough, he’s strong, he can bang,” Mayweather claimed in an interview.

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Whoever wins this bout likely will face the other champions in the division, including Terence Crawford, Shawn Porter, Keith Thurman or Manny Pacquiao. Even with Garcia and Spence both having a working relationship with Al Haymon, Garcia has a potential mandatory showdown against Richard Commey by the IBF, who stripped Garcia of their junior welterweight title due to not accepting a mandatory fight against Ivan Baranchyk to face Robert Easter Jr.

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